Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.

'Ariel'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Barb - Feb 21, 2010 8:49:30 pm PST #9801 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”

House I looked at today: first house I've ever looked at potentially buying EVER

Link not working!

And if you need a realtor, I can hook you up with ours. She's completely sharp and with it-- former accountant turned realtor and will totally steer you right. We'll talk on Thursday. :)


megan walker - Feb 21, 2010 8:52:33 pm PST #9802 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I hope smonster is watching the ice dancing--moldavian folk dance!


javachik - Feb 21, 2010 8:53:43 pm PST #9803 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

megan, your tag sounds dirty. I like it.


megan walker - Feb 21, 2010 8:54:11 pm PST #9804 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Get your head out of the gutter!


Cass - Feb 21, 2010 9:16:46 pm PST #9805 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

House I looked at today

That's not a house! (Nor it is a planet, actually.)


billytea - Feb 21, 2010 9:18:37 pm PST #9806 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Get your head out of the gutter!

Ok, now that sounds dirty.


meara - Feb 21, 2010 9:43:46 pm PST #9807 of 30001

Ooh, I just tried clicking on my link, and yeah....that was quite the cut and paste error. Ahem. Glad that didn't work.

Lemme try that again...

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Cass - Feb 21, 2010 9:55:48 pm PST #9808 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

That's pretty. And I like the kitchen from the pictures too.

and yeah....that was quite the cut and paste error. Ahem. Glad that didn't work.

Kinda thought that. Hee.


meara - Feb 21, 2010 10:03:31 pm PST #9809 of 30001

Today was a really gorgeous day here, all blue sky and sunny (not a common occurrence in February), and so it looked all sunny and happy (but most anything would've). AND you could see how the place had a nice view of the mountains. (OTOH, that was if you looked up. If you looked down, it had a nice view of...the alley and the neighbor's bad bad gravel pit parking area backyard thing). But oh, to wake up in the morning to an east facing window looking out at mountains?


Trudy Booth - Feb 21, 2010 10:21:05 pm PST #9810 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I don't think they were supposed to be folk dances per se but somehow nationally inspired.

I was amused by the "smoking" at the beginning of the can can because it was a French team. In improv games, whenever the suggestion is "French" everyone picks up imaginary cigarettes. (and they work the word 'bourgeoisie' in ASAP) It's a silly convention (improv is full of them) and tends to go to some amusing extreme... the baby is born smoking, the dog is smoking... So I was particularly amused when the French team started with what I think of as the silly indicator stereotype.

I initially felt for the Russian team when people freaked about ::gasp:: BLACKFACE. Because if you're in a culture that a) never had black slaves and b)never invented a bunch of stock "black" characters that white people would dress as in a crude and degrading fashion I don't think we're dealing with something necessarily offensive. It's not artificially darkening skin to look like someone else that's inherently offensive, its the history of it why and how that happened. I don't see how or why a Russian skating team would or should know this. In this regard, I felt for them.

But then they just started swinging wildly. They met with various Canadian tribal leaders (on the 'generic aboriginal' premise), they used some weird mish-mosh music, and they just sort of flailed about in amazingly clunky awkward costumes. Apart from any cultural offense or insensitivity they looked like hell.

In my humble opinion, when teams went with an actual folk dance to actual folk music they did themselves a service. This is a dance and a music that have been working together successfully for how many hundred years. There is something to it. Use that. Duh.

And the two "cowboy" ones... dude, I've been line dancing twice. There was two-step simple enough I could pick up well enough to have fun. You're actual dancers. Throw in some actual two-step. [link] It would look rad on skates. Again, I say "Duh".